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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Bethan McKernan Jerusalem correspondent

Human rights lawyer in Israeli prison goes on hunger strike

Salah Hamouri giving an interview in the West Bank city of Ramallah in October 2020
Salah Hamouri giving an interview in the West Bank city of Ramallah in October 2020. Photograph: Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images

A prominent Palestinian-French human rights lawyer has gone on hunger strike in protest against his imprisonment without charge by Israeli authorities for the last six months.

Salah Hamouri, 37, a father of two from occupied East Jerusalem, has been held in administrative detention since 7 March, and his detention order has been renewed until at least early December based on undisclosed evidence.

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